Comprehensive vs Capacious - What's the difference?
comprehensive | capacious |
Broadly]] or completely covering; [[include, including a large proportion of something.
(British) A comprehensive school.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Peter Wilby)
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, title= Having a lot of space inside; roomy.
* 1874 , (Marcus Clarke), (For the Term of His Natural Life) Chapter V
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As adjectives the difference between comprehensive and capacious
is that comprehensive is while capacious is having a lot of space inside; roomy.comprehensive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* (broadly or completely covering) exhaustive, thorough, all-encompassingDerived terms
* comprehensively * comprehensivization * comprehensivizeNoun
(en noun)Finland spreads word on schools, passage=Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.}} ----
capacious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The Malabar, that huge sea monster, in whose capacious belly so many human creatures lived and suffered, had dwindled to a walnut-shell, and yet beside her bulk how infinitely small had their own frail cockboat appeared as they shot out from under her towering stern!
citation, passage= “Do I fidget you ?” he asked apologetically, whilst his long bony fingers buried themselves, string, knots, and all, into the capacious pockets of his magnificent tweed ulster.}}